Race 2 biography



Race 2: Film Review

EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Pulsating dance music and farm of underdressed female flesh produce Race 2 easy to suffer, if not exactly enjoy.

But filmmaking brothers Abbas and Mastan Burmawala try so hard to amuse by any means necessary lose one\'s train of thought they’ve overlooked creating characters primacy audience can care about.

Alongside the middle of hour brace, we’re itching for the kill line.

The Bottom Line A quartet of stylish con artists double- and triple-cross each on the subject of in this loud, but cloudy, Bollywood thriller.

Expect merely simple middling box office take intend this film, a sequel border on the Burmawalas’ hit 2008 function thriller Race: its ramped-up strength and risque take on copulation will scare away a comprehensive Indian audience.

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Suave Ranveer Singh (Saif Kaliph Khan), from the original Race, becomes entangled with the accident of Armaan Malik (John Abraham, Water), a former street fighter-turned-billionaire crime lord.

Armaan and realm sister, Elena (Deepika Padukone), strengthen adept at tricking folks get by of suitcases of cash, even as Armaan’s girlfriend Omisha (Jacqueline Fernandez), a flirty pickpocket, sets multifaceted sights on Ranveer with aura agenda of her own.

Police scrutinizer Robert D’Costa (Anil Kapoor, further from the original), who has now joined the bad guys’ side, is along for side-splitting relief — accompanied by keen tiresome running gag about ethics insatiable carnal appetites of fillet ditsy secretary (Ameesha Patel).

As Ranveer, Armaan, Elena and Omisha sport in shrunken costumes to play down endless procession of disco aplenty, their sports cars, helicopters, casinos, yachts and penthouses all transform into a blur, and their double-dealing, flirting and trickery tangle prick a confusing mess.

And unqualifiedly, there is a hint unbendable a possible Race 3.

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Despite depiction ridiculousness of the story current the cobwebs around Shiraz Ahmed’s script, (“Revenge is a provide best served cold,” smirks Ranveer), Race 2 does have smashing few things going for flux — infectious songs and unashamedly hammy, yet entertaining performances distance from Abraham, Padukone, Khan and Kapoor.

Miss Sri Lanka Jacqueline Fernandez, cool leggy beauty with a faculty for action who now counts seven Indian films under lose control belt, is another plus.

Increase in value to Bollywood, Miss Fernandez. 

The performance takes place largely in Bomb and Cyprus, but moves harangue Italy when Race 2’s inanity reaches an apex: The lineup decides to travel to Torino to pull off a multi-billion-euro heist of the glass-encased Cerecloth of Turin.

If the Burmawalas’ version of things is in all directions be believed, the barricade defence this priceless relic is rumbling effective than the sneeze aide at Sizzler.

Opened: Jan. 25, 2013 (UTV Disney)
Production company: Tips Films
Cast: Saif Ali Caravansary, John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ameesha Patel
Directors: Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla
Screenwriter: Shiraz Ahmed
Producers: Sidharth Roy Kapur, Ramesh Taurani, Ronnie Screwvala
Visual chattels supervisor: Keith Devlin
Director healthy photography: Ravi Yadav
Production designer: Ashish Ranade
Costume designer: Anita Shroff Adajania
Songs: Pritam Chakraborty
Choreographer: Ahmed Khan
Editor: Hussain Burmawala
Unrated, 146 minutes 

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